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Last year, CGTrader invited students from around the world to take a look at how games could be used for social good and playful learning. Our staff had a wonderful time reading their essays and voting for the best ones. We want to thank everyone for participating and congratulate Allison Smith, a student from Medical Lake High School, on winning first place and the $2,000 scholarship with her essay. Runners-up Gregory Welsh from Villanova University...

As millions of gamers are taking their first steps in virtual reality (VR), we want to find out more about the people creating awesome VR experiences. This is why we'd like to introduce Oliwer Svensson ( @oliwervik) to our 3D designer community. Oliwer is the Art Director at SVRVIVE – an independent VR game development studio known for making great games with immersive environments. In this interview, he shares his insights on developing transformative games,...

Last month we announced the winners of our 3D Challenge: Space. We got in touch with them and asked a couple of questions about their design work. Now, with the well-deserved spotlight on them, we give you their answers. Tell us a bit about yourselves. How did you start 3D modeling? jackfurneri1984: I'm an Italian 3D artist with a Master’s degree in 3D Computer Animation held at the University of Kent (Canterbury - UK). My...

Dekogon Studios is a collective of top artists in the gaming industry. We got the chance to talk to its founder, Clinton Crumpler, who told us what Dekogon is focused on now and shared some insights about the 3D modeling industry. Clinton, tell us a bit about how Dekogon Studios came about and what you do. Dekogon is an artist collaborative group, our work is created by a collective of multiple contributing top-talent artists from...

You know how announcers on classic radio stations talk for a couple of minutes before playing that piece by Vivaldi, or how you get those booklets every time you go to the Opera? (You guys do go to the Opera, right?) These things are there because a great work of art deserves a story. Our Digital Design Awards brought the art and now we bring you the stories! As the winner of the Sci-Fi category...

Are you ready for another challenge? We’ve already awarded a total prize pool of $15,000 to winners of the Designer Schwag and Sports & the Hobbies challenges, and now we’re kicking off another friendly competition: this time we’re searching for the best PBR models of interior objects! Join our Interior Design Challenge today! Eligible models This is a single-object model challenge, so no environments or interior sets can enter the competition. You can, however, take...

Are you going to your local Game Jam? We know we are! This year, we want to help jammers around the world, and what better way to do that than by giving access to some great free 3D models? The CGTrader community has a huge base of game-ready free models, and our designers picked a couple of game-ready free models to show you the potential CGTrader has for jammers. Check them out! Free character models...

We are still accepting submissions for the 3D Challenge: Abstract Elements. You have until January 29 to show us what you can do with natural and man-made forms, ornaments and geometric shapes. If it sounds too abstract, we have some examples of what you could use: Objects found in nature: clouds and smoke, fire, liquid drops and splashes, ice and snow, crystals and gems, floral objects (flowers, leaves, vines - the more design oriented, the...

In a sense we’re all flying through space in a spiraling path at a ridiculous speed (did you know we’re only 4 billion years away from the Milky Way colliding with Andromeda?), but for this 3D challenge we put our reference point on Earth and let your imagination run free! The Space challenge invited designers from all over the world to submit space-themed designs in low and high poly categories. We had a huge turnout...

In the Fall, we were running a Sports & Hobbies themed 3D challenge. We know, quite some time has passed since the challenge was closed, but we have finally decided the winners and hope to get the amazing prizes delivered before the holidays start :) So, without further ado, let’s see who created the models that left the judges in awe. The judging process was based on a number of aspects including technical, aesthetic, legal,...